diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 12276d43b97..f5b4c9a496c 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -377,6 +377,9 @@ Release 2.0.3-alpha - Unreleased
     HADOOP-8900. BuiltInGzipDecompressor throws IOException - stored gzip size
     doesn't match decompressed size. (Slavik Krassovsky via suresh)
 
+    HADOOP-8948. TestFileUtil.testGetDU fails on Windows due to incorrect
+    assumption of line separator. (Chris Nauroth via suresh)
+
 Release 2.0.2-alpha - 2012-09-07 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/TestFileUtil.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/TestFileUtil.java
index 0b74baeb6e7..90db2d0526b 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/TestFileUtil.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/TestFileUtil.java
@@ -472,7 +472,9 @@ public class TestFileUtil {
     setupDirs();
 
     long du = FileUtil.getDU(TEST_DIR);
-    //Only two files (in partitioned) have 4 bytes each
-    Assert.assertEquals(du, 8);
+    // Only two files (in partitioned).  Each has 3 characters + system-specific
+    // line separator.
+    long expected = 2 * (3 + System.getProperty("line.separator").length());
+    Assert.assertEquals(expected, du);
   }
 }